Okay, picture this, you're editing your podcast episode, and you realize you mispronounced the
word guilty of that or that you wish you would have added a transition word or a short sentence,
even between IDs or maybe your cohost cuffed or hit the microphone just as
you were dropping some wisdom. And now your voice is unintelligible.
Re-recording this can quickly add more time and inconvenience to your editing workflow.
But what if I told you you can't replace or add words or short sentences, as easy as typing them
into a word document? Cool. Right. Well, hold on tight, because, in this video, we'll show you how
to create a clone of your voice and use it to make those minor changes to your recordings.
Using the overdub feature in one of our favorite audio editing solutions,
Descript. But before we jump into the video, don't forget to subscribe to our channel
and also give the video a thumbs up. Okay. That's good too.
Hey, welcome back. Or if this, your first time here, I'm studio Steve. I'm the in
house producer and also audio engineer for the Pod Sound School. And today, I'm going to show
you how easy it is to clone your own voice. Using descript. So if you're unfamiliar with Descript,
Descript is a really cool software that allows you to edit your podcast
(or even your videos) like you would a word document. This is so cool, they have so many
awesome features like: auto-detecting your ums and UHS and removing those or auto-detecting the space
(long pauses) that you take in your podcast episodes. And recently, the overdub feature
is now available, and Veronica and I were so excited to try it out and to clone our voices.
Because this can be so handy when you're editing a podcast, not to mention that it's really fun. So
let's pop over into Descript and let's take a look at what Descript looks like when you
first open it up here, you have this projects panel that opens up, and this allows you to
get familiar with how the script works. Here you'll see tutorials, and I really recommend
taking these tutorials (walking through the tutorials). They're super fun, and they really
get you up and running in Descript quickly. And from here, you can create a new project.
And I'm just going to call this test project here, and we'll put it in Veronica's drive.
Okay. So right out of the box here, in Descript, even in the free version of descript, you have
access to prerecorded, overdub voices that Descript had professional actors make,
and they sound really great. And there's a lot of really cool uses for them. And all
you'd have to do there is right here where it says unknown speaker, you edit speakers,
and from speakers, you have a whole dropdown of different actors here.
Don's really cool. If I remember, right, Don is kind of a movie announcer guy. We could change his
name to a movie announcer and say done. And then we have Don right here, and we could say "in a
world of your everyday podcast, comes the greatest podcast that you have ever listened to." And now
you'll notice that it just takes a few seconds to generate the overdub based off of what I typed.
And here now it has generated Dawn's voice or the movie announcers I've called it and let's
press the tab key to play and hear what it sounds like in a world of your everyday podcast
comes the greatest, the podcast that you have ever listened to in a word.
And I said, Comes the greatest the podcast, but this is really cool.
And once you've typed this out, you can apply different voices to it by
just selecting different speakers here; we could listen to Ruth, for example,
and if we come and get to the first of the timeline here and press tab in a world of
your everyday podcast comes the greatest podcast that you have ever listened to.
Now that is really cool. You can hear that it still has that sort of Siri
element to it, but compared to Siri or any other robot voices,
this technology is really amazing. So let's see what happens. If we overdub our own voices,
we're going to do it with Veronica's voice, and we're going to do it with my voice.
So it's going to be really fun, and let's check it out. So I'm going to go back into the project
browser of descript. Which you see here, and this is what opens up when you open up the script. And
this is where once you have projects, you'll see all your projects here. Again, you can take these
tutorials here, which is great, but I'm actually going to go to overdub from the project browser.
And this will tell you that it requires the pro plan. So to be able to overdub your own voice,
you will need to upgrade to pro, and you'll actually have to upgrade to pro for each
speaker that you want to create a voice for. So you upgrade to pro, and they have a
seven-day free trial. You can find the link for descript and your free seven-day trial, right.
Where you're watching it. This video. So go down and click on that. Okay. And once you've entered
your payment information super quick, now you can create your overdub voice. And to do that,
you just say, get started, and here you will give it a name. So I'll start by calling this
voice Veronica, and I'll say confirm, and it automatically opens up a descript project for you.
And right here, it says, prepare your overdub voice and gives you instructions for how to
do so by opening a script. This is really cool. And what you'll need to do here is read at least
10 minutes of the script as clearly. But as naturally as you can into preferably a microphone,
you really don't want to use your computer laptop.
You're not going to get the best results. At least you want to use something like a USB microphone
and talk properly into it, a nice distance from the microphone and get the best sound you can get
so that descript can really make a nice overdub of your voice. And if you really want to go the
extra mile and get a really good overdub voice, Read even more than 10 minutes,
go ahead and read through this main script of the full 30 minutes.
And then of course, they have two other supplemental scripts that you could read.
If you really want to give Descript a ton of information of all the little nuances
of your voice, that will really give you an amazing overdub or an amazing clone
of your own voice that you can use. So this is what we're going to do.
Once you have this script, you can either like you see here, we're going to do this
in two different ways. Veronica is going to pop in here, and she's going to record at the laptop
with this agency. 2100 microphone. You can find the link to this microphone right here,
where you're watching this video, as well as a couple of our other favorite USB microphones.
And she's going to do that here with a pop filter and also a windscreen
on the microphone to really prevent too many pop noises coming into the microphone.
And she's going to read directly from the laptop. Now, when you do that, you're going to
get some laptop buzz and some noise from your laptop. So what would be even better than that?
To actually read it from your phone, or if you have an iPad
to read the script from that, and then to record directly into descript.
And then the other option you have instead of recording directly into descript
is to record separately and then drag the audio into descript. And that's what I'm going to do.
And that allows you to get. Really professional with your voice, you can record it like you would
a voiceover for a film, and you can get a really nice condenser microphone in a nice quiet room.
And you can add any effects that you want to maybe a compressor
or some noise reduction, and really just get a Primo sounding voice.
The entire script and then share that script with descript. So you'll be able to hear
both of our overdubs created after we do that. So once you record the script,
you'll actually record it directly into this script here. Then you come up here and say,
submit training data. Once you submit the training data, it can take descript 12
to 24 hours to process and create your clone, and you'll get your clone back.
So let's watch Veronica, and I really quickly create our overdubs. And then we'll wait that
12 hours or so, and we'll check out how they turn out. I'm really excited. Here we go.
Okay. So that can be pretty intense, especially to read for a full half an hour.
Some things that you can do that we found out doing it. Veronica found that sitting down,
she was getting tired, and having to read it all in one take was pretty difficult
for her. So you can take breaks, you can do it over a couple of different
days and continually build out your descript project before, or you submit it to descript.
Sue, turn into an overdub. Or like I did, you can stand up, you can do a lot of warmups with your
voice. You can do the motorboats or even the dog breathing and make sure that you stay hydrated,
which will help a lot. And another tip is to speak the way that you do
on your podcast. And if you are going to be using it with your podcast, Use the same
podcast microphone and be in the same room in the same setup that you use for your podcast.
And you'll have a lot of continuity between the two voices, your voice,
and your clone voice. Okay. So to demonstrate this, I have this little
clip of one of our pod sound school podcasts, and you'll notice here. Veronica says you will have
to get creative to have money with your podcast. I want her to say, to make money instead of having.
And I also want her to say number four to start this off because she forgot to say
that in the recording, you'll notice down here, studio, Steve said number five. So to do that,
we just have to insert an overdub with our new overdubbed voice. You have to do that.
We can come up here to the plus button where it says, add voice recording tracks, and more.
And from here, we can choose to add an overdub or even gives us the quick key, which is command D
that'll be controlled on a PC. So here, I would say number four and period. And then from here,
I can click on the speaker's name again and say, create from voice,
and I'll choose Veronica's voice. And now it will generate her overdub every everywhere.
There's an overdub voice that's been added here and now let's press the tab key and hear what
that sounds like. Number four, you will have to get creative to have money with your podcast.
Okay. Now let's change. Have. To make. I'll press command D,
and here I'll say, make, and then all I have to do is actually delete the word.
Have I can highlight it and delete it like that. So now it will generate the, to make, which is
nice. And let's hear what that sounds like. Number four, you will have to get creative to make money
with your podcast. That is really cool. So then she says, unless you're celebrity influencer
have a lot of money or have a product or service, and she would rather not say have a lot of money.
And right here, we can actually highlight this and say, instead of say, have a lot of money
here. We'll say command D, and we'll say have a lot of followers. On social media and then we'll
click overdub, and now it's going to replace what I highlighted with what I read. We wanted
it to say, and it's going to generate the overdub, and you'll see, it just takes a few seconds here.
And now, let's hear that. Unless you're a celebrity influencer,
have a lot of followers on social media, or have a product or service to sell.
You will not be making money from your podcast fried after your lunch. Okay, cool.
So that was really incredible. I could not tell the difference. And in the midst of a
podcast episode, I would not be able to tell that she wasn't actually saying those words.
Okay. So now, let's take a look at my voice here. I made a big mistake that I want to change.
Let's have a listen. Number five, you will have to become marketing Savage. I didn't want to say,
Savage. I wanted to say savvy. So now, instead of having to pop in front of a microphone, open
up my DAW again and just record the word savvy and then try to insert it in there to fix that.
I'm going to have my overdubbed clone. Do that for me here in descript.
So I'm going to actually just try replacing the word, Savage.
So to do that, I'll have to activate my overdub on my voice here by clicking on it and saying,
create from voice studio. Steve now has changed colors, and I'm a purple color now.
And anytime I want to use overdub like I did up on Veronica's voice here and we'll use
my clone to do so. So let's see if we can just grab that word
Savage and turn it into savvy, press command D, type in savvy,
and then click overdub. Now it will generate the overdub here and take a couple of seconds.
Okay. And now let's have a listen to how that sounds. Number, and I'm going to close
this gap a little bit here. I took too long to say number five there, and number five,
you will have to become marketing savvy. Okay. Now that's pretty good. I heard a little bit
of inflection, I think in the podcast episode, that would be perfectly okay.
And definitely way better than having to record the whole thing in the DAW.
But another thing I could try is I could undo those actions. And you can always try to do a
couple words or a few different words instead of just one word, and he might get the inflection
better with overdub. So here, I'm going to say command D to hop into overdub again,
and I'm just going to type in marketing savvy instead of just savvy by itself and period.
And then I'll say overdub. That is really cool to have just a couple seconds to generate that. And
now let's have a listen to that. Go ahead and trim this out like that. And we'll press the tab. Key
number five, you will have to become marketing savvy. That's pretty cool. And as I'm finishing
up, one of my other favorite features about descript is that you can actually collaborate
with other creators as you would in a Google doc, and you can do that right here by sharing.
So I could share this project with Veronica, and I'll enter her email here.
And then I'll say that she "can edit." You can also just say "can comment,"
but I'll say "can edit," and I'll send that email to her. So now, this project is saved
with her and that will allow her to see this project to open it up. On her computer in a
different location and to edit it and to see if the edits I made, she liked them as well.
And I think I might leave her another little present there in this when she
opens it up. Hey guys. I just wanted to confess. I have a booger picking problem,
and I like to hide my boogers under tables and desks. Whenever someone
discovers these, these little nose critters, I act disgusted and blame it on Studio Steve.
Hey guys. I just wanted to confess, I have a booger picking problem,
and I like to hide my boogers under tables and desks. Whenever someone
discovers these little nose critters, I act disgusted and blamed it on studio Steve.
Number four, you will have to get creative to make money. I didn't say that. Okay.
Well, he'll see.
Oh, and it looks like she updated it. And before we go, there's something I need to
get off my chest. I cry very easily, and often I haven't exercised since 1993,
and I don't know how to clip my own toenails.
And there you go, Podski. Wasn't that fun? Remember, you can start your seven-day free trial
today with Descript and start using this really cool feature. The link is in the description
below. Also, if you're just starting with podcasting. We have a free master class that is
great for beginners. And you can find the link to the masterclass in the description below as well.